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From: sdh@thumper.bellcore.com (Retief of the CDT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: $0D problems: an answer
Keywords: uploading
Message-ID: <1238@thumper.bellcore.com>
Date: 18 Jul 88 14:44:36 GMT
Organization: Bell Communications Research
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The problem is that you are transferring data to a UNIX system
from a non-UNIX system.  The transfer software will do its
best to make this a painless task by translating your carriage
returns to new-lines.  This poses a problem with raw data,
though.

	Most likely, it is NOT the Mac-end software that is
causing you trouble, but the UNIX end software.  For example,
if you are using macget on the UNIX end, with the -u option,
it will do the translation (oops).  If you use the -d option,
no translation will be done.

Another option is to write a Mac-end program that takes a file
and converts it to an ascii readable version, then you need a
UNIX end program to untranslate it.  BinHex and xbin for the Mac
and UNIX respectively will fit the bill.

Steve Hawley
sdh@bellcore.com
hawley@oberlin.edu